Universality classes of topological phase transitions with higher-order band crossing

W Chen, AP Schnyder - New Journal of Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In topological insulators and topological superconductors, the discrete jump of the
topological invariant upon tuning a certain system parameter defines a topological phase …

Topological phase transitions at finite temperature

P Molignini, NR Cooper - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
The ground states of noninteracting fermions in one-dimension with chiral symmetry form a
class of topological band insulators, described by a topological invariant that can be related …

Unconventional scaling at non-Hermitian critical points

R Arouca, CH Lee, C Morais Smith - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Critical phase transitions contain a variety of deep and universal physics and are intimately
tied to thermodynamic quantities through scaling relations. Yet, these notions are …

Multicritical behavior in topological phase transitions

S Rufo, N Lopes, MA Continentino, MAR Griffith - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Topological phase transitions can be described by the theory of critical phenomena and
identified by critical exponents that define their universality classes. This is a consequence …

Multi-critical topological transition at quantum criticality

RR Kumar, YR Kartik, S Rahul, S Sarkar - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The investigation and characterization of topological quantum phase transition between
gapless phases is one of the recent interest of research in topological states of matter. We …

Topological marker approach to an interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

PB Melo, SAS Júnior, W Chen, R Mondaini, T Paiva - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model in the presence of
nearest-neighbor interaction are investigated by means of a topological marker, generalized …

Generating quantum multicriticality in topological insulators by periodic driving

P Molignini, W Chen, R Chitra - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate that the prototypical two-dimensional Chern insulator hosts exotic quantum
multicriticality in the presence of an appropriate periodic driving: a linear Dirac-like transition …

Fidelity susceptibility near topological phase transitions in quantum walks

S Panahiyan, W Chen, S Fritzsche - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The notion of fidelity susceptibility, introduced within the context of quantum metric tensor,
has been an important quantity to characterize the criticality near quantum phase transitions …

Unification of topological invariants in Dirac models

G von Gersdorff, S Panahiyan, W Chen - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Topological phases of materials are characterized by topological invariants that are
conventionally calculated by different means according to the dimension and symmetry …

Correlated Chern insulators in two-dimensional Raman lattices: A cold-atom regularization of strongly coupled four-Fermi field theories

L Ziegler, E Tirrito, M Lewenstein, S Hands… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We show that synthetic spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms in optical Raman potentials
can be exploited to build versatile quantum simulators of correlated Chern insulators …